Quotes About Wisdom

I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

I have always spent my time more preciously than my money.

I have always believed that God has a mysterious a way of revealing things.

Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

Too often people view idealists as naive.

It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!

Being a little naive can work to your advantage.

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.

I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

We are young; we are naive with money. Money can go fast. If anyone thinks he is something better just because he has more money in the account, then he can very quickly fall on your face.

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

I'm not as naive as some people think.

I'm not naive.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

I just thought you only need to like a person to marry him, which's quite naive.

I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.